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Answers For Opponents Of The Wisdom Of Kabbalah

laitman_282_02Question: How do you see attacks on you and the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: With kindness. Not surprisingly, after 2,000 years of concealment, the wisdom of Kabbalah is revealed with difficulty, acquiring rivals who are united in their absolute ignorance of the subject.

Therefore I have decided to lead with an “educational program” of the wisdom of Kabbalah with answers so that those who speak out against it will understand the essence of their objections and opposition.

The answers are not mine but those of great Kabbalists. If they want to understand at least somewhat, of course.

The wisdom of Kabbalah includes all of creation within it, the upper worlds and our lowest world with everything that fills them. Moreover this entire structure is not discovered in parts but completely together, but its scale goes and grows gradually through 125 levels.

Therefore, to talk about Kabbalah can only comprehending the upper world, not comprehending at all can not imagine anything!

Therefore, only someone who attains the upper world can speak about the wisdom of Kabbalah, and someone who hasn’t attained it cannot comprehend anything at all, and cannot imagine anything. He can’t understand even one word of what is written in the books of the wisdom of Kabbalah. Even if he has studied it for 20 years, but has not achieved the revelation of the upper world, he does not understand anything in Kabbalah.

But our age is amazing! It turns out that all are well versed in this science. It does not matter if he is a believer or not—on television they broadcast programs about amulets, charms, red strings, symbols for success, and say that it is the wisdom of Kabbalah, and even the Orthodox Jews. As far as it seems, it is in this way that the wisdom about the coming level of humanity is being revealed..
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Everything Was Created For A Reason

laitman_627_2Question: Does critical thinking help a person ascend the spiritual ladder, or does it stand in his way? Should get rid of it?

Answer: Everything in a person was created for a reason. There is no need to destroy, humiliate, delete, lock, or hide anything. On the contrary, open everything up, but only so that it will help you advance spiritually. Eventually, you will see that it is a wonderful, extraordinary opportunity to use all of the nastiest, terrible natural or acquired impulses about which it is shameful to speak. You will fell how right and necessary they are. You suddenly will be able to fulfill them in a sublime, spiritual manner.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/10/16

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laitman_281_01Question: How can we have the right intention focused on the Creator in our corporeal desires?

Answer: It depends on how you use them. The desire for wealth, respect, and knowledge can be used in order to disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah. The intention determines everything,

Question: How can I feel what my friend feels?

Answer: It is only when you connect with him by sharing a common goal.

Question: If we can acquire knowledge during the lessons and from books, what should I do with faith?

Answer: There is no faith. Faith is bestowal. Is it believing blindly in what you are told? No way.

Question: Are my desires filled with Light if I am in this world but don’t feel the upper world?

Answer: If your desires are aimed at the good of others, they always are filled with Light, even on the level of this world.

Question: What should I do if I receive blows in return for my actions of bestowal? As it is said, do no good and you will receive no evil.

Answer: This also can happen, so you must act through the group. Then, you are shown how to act correctly.

Question: What are the basic necessities that a person should have in this world in order to study the wisdom of Kabbalah correctly?

Answer: It is only a teacher and a group. This is what we are trying to provide everyone with, in every corner of the world, so that everyone will have a virtual group and a teacher.

Question: How can we check if we actually have attained something?

Answer: It only can be revelation. Only revelations can verify that you are on the right track.

Question: How can I practice bestowal in everyday life if I want to bestow more?

Answer: Go out and disseminate. Meet with friends and, together, do everything in order to unite. If you have several friends, it is enough in order to attain the complete goal of creation.

Question: How can I develop the ability to be a spiritual component in the real world?

Answer: You should work with the group until you dissolve in it and discover the Creator in the center of the group.

Question: What is an incentive to bestow without getting anything in return?

Answer: It is being on the Creator’s level, ascending the 125 levels from the lowest level in our world to his level, when you are above infinity, eternity, and wholeness.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/10/16

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Where Can We Find The Answers To Our Questions?

Laitman_051Question: What is the mechanism for searching for answers to the questions that I have inside of me?

Answer: I will never find answers to the questions inside of me—never. Who am I that I should have ready-made answers? I only ask questions, and in order to find the answers to them, I must follow the instructions carefully.

The wisdom of Kabbalah reveals the influence of the upper force on me. So, I must use this wisdom, and then I will be able to discover the upper force and find the answers, but only I will find them, and no one else.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/10/16

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Feeling The Spiritual Worlds

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: Why do we need to feel the spiritual worlds?

Answer: We have to feel the spiritual worlds because otherwise we will not know how to behave in this world in a correct way, what to do with ourselves, how to relate to others, why we exist, which forces govern us, where our free choice is, and where we don’t have free choice.

We need to understand in what we are totally dependent on the forces of nature and where we can act independently and how to do it: or by chance, when suddenly we feel like it, or by knowing the correct goal of progress to do something good, good for ourselves and for others.

We need to recognize and attain the system that we live in; otherwise, we act like blind kittens. But kittens at least have a mother, and we are in the rough hands of the concealed force of nature. There is a network of forces that we are imprisoned in it and we don’t know what strings are pulling us.

Evolution, the continuous development of nature, is conducted according to a definite law. But from a certain point onward, this development requires the proper wise involvement of man. And if a person is not ready to properly integrate into this formula of development, then it acts against him compelling him more and more to explore the system of development.

We see, in spite of everything, that we have reached a point where everything is falling apart and the world we built is terrible. We are destroying nature, the future is unknown, tomorrow is unclear, and we begin to discover ourselves, our egoism, as the source of all the problems.

And here the question that arises is not about the need to believe in spiritual worlds, but how to be rescued, how to make sure that we will not be involved in any problems. Look at what is happening in the whole world: in Russia, in America, in Europe, in the Middle East, in the Far East, in Latin America, and in Africa—everyone is suffering. There is no one on earth that can say that he enjoys happiness and serenity.

We have gotten ourselves into a dead end. Therefore, this reveals the need to understand what the source of all our problems is, and along with that the wisdom of Kabbalah is revealed, which says: “ I will tell you about everything and will give you a possibility to steer in the correct way.”

We live in a special time: on one hand, it is very scary, bad, evil, and unpredictable, and on the other hand, we can reveal the whole system of leadership of our world and start to work in it.

Therefore, we should enjoy this combination of circumstances: On one hand, it compels us to reveal the system of control called the upper world, and on the other hand, we have the opportunity to be saved.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/27/15

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The Tree Of Life And The Tree Of Knowledge

laitman_243_04Question: How is the thirst for knowledge and spiritual attainment related to the tree of knowledge, and how is the tree of knowledge related to the tree of life?

Answer: There is only one tree, the tree of life. It is a schema according to which the Upper Light descends from the Creator.

It goes through a system of different filters that weaken the Light. The filters disassemble the Light into many different forms of bestowal, which gradually weakens it until it reaches our world as a big, open hand-held fan, and it affects all of the atoms and the most elementary particles.

This is how we begin to feel this bestowal a bit in our world. First, we only feel that we exist in this world, then that we grow like plants, then we move like animals, and finally we feel it as human beings in the connection between us. This is how the Light develops our ego.

The egoistic point begins to develop its own tree under the influence of the Light from the bottom up, which is opposite to the tree of life that descends from the top down. The tree that grows from the bottom up is called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

The two trees complement each other and become a man. A system called man is created, as it is written, “For is the tree of the field man.”
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/10/16

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Is Infidelity A Reason For Divorce?

laitman_622_01Question: Suppose that infidelity happens in a family, no matter who it is. How does the wisdom of Kabbalah relate to this? Is it necessary to save the family?

Answer: Certainly, the husband and wife should try to understand each other, even though this is difficult and very painful. In spite of that, the family should be maintained.

Both men and women have a tendency toward adventure. It is more egoistic to divorce and leave the children without a united family.

A child suffers more than anyone else from the divorce. So it is worthwhile for both to have patience, go to psychological therapy, understand and agree that all of these situations are part of life.

Question: Among students of the wisdom of Kabbalah, are there immoral people like these?

Answer: There are no immoral people; they are simply egoists in need of correction. The wisdom of Kabbalah is involved with this, but it is slow and gradual. Therefore these days a person is given 70-90 years to live so that he can correct himself.
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From the Webinar on zahav.ru 2/10/16

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Answers To Your Questions, Part 129

laitman_604_04Question: How can we feel happy when we receive disturbances that the Creator sends us?

Answer: It is possible only according to the level of your ascent above the ego, when your intentions are truly in order to bestow and not in order to receive, which means only after the effect of the Surrounding Light and the appearance of the Masach (screen).

Question: How can one be your student and part of the system successfully without torturing himself by getting up early for the morning lessons?

Answer: You can watch them some other time during the day and do your best to participate in our events in a group near you.
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laitman_281_02Question: Very often, I have a question that I want to ask, and then another question stems from it, and then another question, and so on. It all happens at the same time.

Which question should I consider as the main question to ask the teacher, and what is this state called according to the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: This is an unconscious state, and you must continue clarifying it until it becomes clear to you.

Question: As far as I understand, we speak about a method for improving the relationships in the collective. Where can I learn about the way of becoming part of the collective?

Answer: Look it up in our workshop materials.
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In Which Language Should One Study The Wisdom Of Kabbalah?

Laitman_107Question: Should one go out with definitions from spiritual sources in the Russian language in addition to Hebrew, thinking that with a specific operation this could bring together a larger circle of people around the Wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: The wisdom of Kabbalah can be studied in any language, even though its concepts, as in every science, are preserved in the original language in which they were discovered, which is to say, Hebrew. But other than that, it is possible to study without any limit to  language.
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